Extremely violent, colicky, cutting pains, constricting the abdomen. Terrible colic (two cases). Cutting, constrictive colic. Abdomen so sensitive she could not bear any covering (second day). Pains in the intestines were terribly aggravated by pressure of the hand.
Rectum and Anus
Rectum so inflamed and sensitive that an enema could not be administered (second day). Sensation of heaviness and uneasiness at the rectum, after stool (third day). Smarting at the anus, after stool (third day). Frequent urging to stool. Tenesmus, after stool (third day). Constant tenesmus. Severe tenesmus, and burning sensation felt within the rectum, and close to the sphincter ani (in all cases). Violent, painful tenesmus (third day).
Stool.
Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea; (after twelve hours), etc. Constant diarrhoea. Profuse diarrhoea; the stools continued for a long time, with tenesmus and prostration, only relieved after eight days. Violent diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, slimy, mucous, brown, afterwards greenish, mixed with streaks of blood. Purging.
Purging; stools copious, watery, and dark. Purging, with tenesmus. Stools very frequent (at first). Very frequent liquid stools, with a great deal of bright-red blood, and shreds of membrane, sometimes very scanty, sometimes more abundant, sometimes containing fragments of solid faecal matter (third day). Frequent evacuations (one case). Frequent small bilious stools, with burning and tenesmus. Frequent calls to evacuate the bowels. Every half hour, or even less, sometimes in the course of twenty minutes, they were forced to go to the ship’s chains; but seldom, in the attempt to relieve the bowels was feculent matter discharged. Blood in small quantities, and slimy mucous stools tinged with blood, were passed from the rectum.
Shreds of lymph and frothy ashen-colored secretions were forced from the bowels by dint of straining. Without affording relief in a single case, these discharges from the bowels aggravated the sufferings of the patient. Stools involuntary, liquid, not very copious, coming either at the commencement of the disease, or after two or three days. Profuse involuntary, liquid, green, and offensive stools (after three hours). In two cases (children) the stools were involuntary during the collapse; one bloody, the other not. Copious stools (third day). Copious stool, containing a pretty large quantity of acetate of copper (third day). Liquid stools. Thin liquid stools. Awakened at 2 A.M., while lying on a abdomen (an unusual position with him), by a copious liquid stool, so hurried that it escaped over a portion of the bed, with colic and headache (third day). Grayish stools.
Stools small, greenish, of slimy mucus; one or two minutes before a stool there was always violent griping in the intestines, which continued after the stool, but only a short time; the stool was always followed by great urging, like the tenesmus of dysentery.
Bloody discharges from the bowels. Stools at times streaked with blood. Stool consisting of almost clear bright-red blood (in a boy 6 years old), (third day). Stool usually preceded by increase of the colic. Stool always followed by relief of the general symptoms. Constipation. Constipation (later action); (second day), etc. Constipation for several days. Constipation for four days. Constipation, with great heat of the body.
(* “No unwonted thing with her.” says the reporter.-HUGHES. *) Prolonged constipation, with slight drawing pains about the umbilicus and flanks from time to time, seldom lasting over one hour. Obstinate constipation, with persistent tenesmus. Stools for the most part constipated. Stools scanty, mucous, at first brownish, afterwards greenish, and on the next day streaked with blood. No movement of the bowels (in any) for six or seven days.
Urinary organs
Micturition. Evacuation of the bladder and bowels on the fourth day, with relief of the symptoms. Micturition every five or ten minutes; she was, however, able to pass only a little urine; the passage was attended with smarting, as from soreness in the urethra. Involuntary passage of urine. Micturition, with burning. Urine scanty. Urine scanty and scalding (second day). Retention of urine. Suppression of urine (third day). Suppression of urine and faeces (fifth day). Complete suppression of urine and faeces. Urine suppressed altogether (or retained in the bladder). Urine. Urine high-colored and tinged with blood. Urine dark-red, turbid, with yellowish sediment.
Urine usually brownish, turbid, depositing a sediment (in many cases normal). Urine turbid and jumentous. Urine turbid, dark- red, with yellowish sediment.
Respiratory organs
Cough and Expectoration. Frequent, violent, dry cough, with learning pain in the head; the cough was followed by violent pulsation of the heart, lasting several minutes; at this time the anxiety and pressure in the chest returned, especially while sitting; cough came on at night between 11 and 1 (sixth day). Much expectoration (one case). Respiration. Respiration accelerated. Respiration, though rapid, was free. Breathing short (after three hours). Difficult respiration. Dyspnoea (second day). Suffocative loss of breath.
Chest
The chest was spasmodically constricted, whereby the respiration was impeded, increasing her already great anxiety. In one case the vomiting was followed immediately by a succession of sharp cramping spasms in the chest, causing the young lady to scream out.
Heart and Pulse
Heart’s Action. Violent palpitation of the heart. Pulse.
Pulse quick, and at the same time so small and weak and thready as scarcely to be felt. Rapid spasmodic pulse. Pulse small, rapid, spasmodic. Pulse hard, full, and frequent (third day).
Pulse moderately accelerated, soft. Pulse moderately accelerated, small and soft. Pulse in many cases not altered in frequency; in others, especially towards the termination of the disease accelerated, seldom above 90, soft, becoming small and weak. Small regular pulse, about 80 a minute. Pulse from 120 to 140; small and wiry. Slow pulse, 24 to the minute. Quick and irregular pulse. Pulse small and irregular. Pulse small, irregular, at times convulsive. Pulse large, slow, and intermitting (second day). Pulse, in four cases small, contracted, and slow, in one case (a full-blooded boy) hard, full, and frequent, with red face and dry skin. Pulse hard, small, and very slow (after three hours). Pulse full and hard.
Pulse hard (third day). Hard and contracted pulse (second day).
Pulse contracted. Pulse small, contracted. Pulse small, contracted, but regular. Pulse small, weak, hard, contracted.
Depressed pulse (soon); (second day). Pulse oppressed (second day). Laboring pulse (soon after).
Neck and Back
Lancinating pain at nape of neck, on bending head backwards (third day). Stitch in the left shoulder-blade, on moving the head (third day). Pain between the shoulders. Pain in the loins. In the loins and sacrum, at the navel and in the iliac region, acute lancinating pains were complained of in each case.
Extremities in General
Objective. Trembling of the limbs, etc. Convulsive movements of the limbs. Slight convulsions in limbs (second day). Spasms of the limbs. Constant painful jerkings in the hands and feet, extending upward into the upper arm and into the legs, with cramps in the calves; this jerking very plainly alternated between the flexor and extensor tendons. Periodic spasmodic contraction of the fingers and toes, frequently so severe that the finger could scarcely be extended by any force; these contractions were painful. Unusual loss of power of the arms and limbs (after several days). Weakness of the limb. A gradually increasing weakness and prostration of the limbs. Weakness and pain (aching) in the limbs for several days. Subjective.
Extremities benumbed. Pains and cramp in the extremities. Pain in the limbs as from exhaustion (third day). Pain at the elbows, in the bend of the knees, etc., with a feeling of languor in all the limbs. Cramps in the extremities. Cramps in the extremities, and convulsive movements of the limbs. Violent drawing and tension in the limbs, frequently associated with shuddering and chilliness, though the skin was not cold. Bruised sensation and feeling of paralysis in the extremities and small of the back, so that it was difficult to use the limbs, associated with tearing pains (fourth day).
Superior Extremities
Objective. No power to hold anything in the hand (fourth day).
Subjective. Tearing pains in the upper extremities. Hands.
Hands became numbed (after twelve hours), (one case). Fingers.
Nails white (after twelve hours), (one case).
Inferior Extremities
Objective. Great weakness of the legs. Remarkable weakness of the legs. (* See S. 493. *) Subjective. Cramps in the lower extremities, especially in the calves. Thighs. Pains in the thighs. Dull pain in the muscles of the thighs on the anterior surface. Legs. Lies constantly with the legs drawn up. Cramps in the calves. Violent cramps in the calves. As the pulse rose, and they became warm, violent cramping, paroxysmally, in the calves, appeared in two cases, drawing one limb sideways and backward, but always relieved by rubbing. Toes. Both large toes were tetanically drawn downward, with most violent pains in the soles of the feet.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.